Software Engineering Research Group MSc Thesis Style

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1 Software Engineering Research Group MSc Thesis Style Version of July 5, 2007 Leon Moonen

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3 Software Engineering Research Group MSc Thesis Style THESIS submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in COMPUTER SCIENCE by Leon Moonen born in Weert, the Netherlands Software Engineering Research Group Department of Software Technology Faculty EEMCS, Delft University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Some Company With it s address ThePlace, the Netherlands

4 c 2005 Leon Moonen. Note that this notice is for demonstration purposes and that the LATEX style and document source are free to use as basis for your MSc thesis. Cover picture: A random maze generated in postscript.

5 Software Engineering Research Group MSc Thesis Style Author: Leon Moonen Student id: Abstract This document describes the standard thesis style for the Software Engineering department at Delft University of Technology. The document and it s source are an example of the use of the standard LATEX style file. In addition the final appendix to this document contains a number of requirements and guidelines for writing a Software Engineering MSc thesis. Your thesis should either employ this style or follow it closely. Thesis Committee: Chair: University supervisor: Company supervisor: Committee Member: Prof. Dr. A. van Deursen, Faculty EEMCS, TU Delft Dr. Ing. L. Moonen, Faculty EEMCS, TU Delft Drs. E.X. Ternal, Some Company Dr. S.T.A.F.F. Member, Faculty EEMCS, TU Delft

29 Appendix A Glossary In this appendix we give an overview of frequently used terms and abbreviations. foo:... bar:... 17

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31 Appendix B Requirements and Guidelines This chapter details some requirements and guidelines for MSc theses submitted to the Software Engineering Research Group. B.1 Requirements B.1.1 Layout Your thesis should contain the formal title pages included in this document (the page with the TU Delft logo and the one that contains the abstract, student id and thesis committee). Usually there is also a cover page containing the thesis title and the author (this document has one) but this can be omitted if desired. Base font should be an 11 point serif font (such as Times, New Century Schoolbook or Computer Modern). Do not use sans-serif fonts such as Arial or Helvetica. Sansserif type is intrinsically less legible than seriffed type [2]. The final thesis and drafts submitted for reviewing should be printed double-sided on A4 paper. B.1.2 Content The thesis should contain the following chapters: Introduction. Describes project context, goals and your research question(s). In addition it contains an overview of how (the remainder of) your thesis is structured. One or (usually) more main chapters. Present your work, the experiments conducted, tool(s) developed, case study performed, etc. Overview of Related Work Discusses scientific literature related to your work and describes how those approaches differ from what you did. 19

32 B.2 Guidelines Requirements and Guidelines B.1.3 Discussion/Evaluation/Reflection What went well, what went less well, what can be improved? Conclusions, Contributions, and (Recommendations for) Future Work Bibliography Bibliography Make sure you ve included all required data such as journal, conference, publisher, editor and page-numbers. When you re using BIBTEX, this means that it won t complain when running bibtex your-main-tex-file. Make sure you use proper bibliographic references. This especially means that you should avoid references that only point at a website and not at a printed publication. For example, it s OK to add a URL with the entry for an article describing a tool to point at its homepage, but it s not OK to just use the URL and not mention the article. B.2 Guidelines The main chapters of a typical thesis contain approximately 50 pages. A typical thesis contains approximately 50 bibliographic references. Make sure your thesis structure is balanced (check this in the table of contents). Typically the main chapters should be of equal length. If they aren t, you might want to revise your structure by merging or splitting some chapters/sections. In addition, the (sub)section hierarchies with the chapters should typically be balanced and of similar depth. If one or more are much deeper nested than others in the same chapter this generally signals structuring problems. Whenever you submit a draft of your thesis to your supervisor for reviewing, make sure that you have checked the spelling and grammar. Moreover, read it yourself at least once from start to end, before submitting to your supervisor. Your supervisor is not a spelling/grammar checker! Whenever you submit a second draft, include a short text which describes the changes w.r.t. the previous version. 20

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